发展地理学是研究人类发展水平和生活品质的地理学分支, 重点关注欠发达与不发达地区在环境条件约束下发展收敛或人类福祉提升过程中的均衡议题。作为地理学的新兴分支学科之一, 发展地理学具有典型的跨学科交叉特点, 其研究的核心内容是全球发展不充分、不均衡以及大规模贫困发生机制, 并试图寻找发展与经济、政治和社会等要素的关系, 在社会发展实践中发挥科学指导作用。《发展地理学导论》全书分为三个部分共13个章节, 系统地介绍了发展地理学的整体框架和研究目标, 针对以中国可持续发展为核心的机制与战略, 提出了相关方法实践, 并深入研究了地区间均衡发展、欠发达地区持续发展以及发达地区生活品质提升路径, 旨在帮助读者更好地理解发展地理学的实践意义。

Development geography is a branch of geography that studies the level of human development and the quality of life, focusing on the issue of balance in the process of development convergence or human well-being enhancement in underdeveloped and underdeveloped regions under the constraints of environmental conditions. As one of the emerging subdisciplines of geography, development geography is typically interdisciplinary and cross-cutting in character, with its core research focusing on the mechanisms of global underdevelopment, imbalance and large-scale poverty, as well as attempting to find out the relationship between development and the economic, political and social factors, so as to play a scientific role in guiding the practice of social development. Divided into three parts and 13 chapters, Introduction to Development Geography systematically introduces the overall framework and research objectives of development geography, proposes relevant methodological practices for the mechanisms and strategies centered on China􀆳s sustainable development, and conducts in-depth research on balanced inter-regional development, sustained development of underdeveloped regions, and paths for improving the quality of life in developed regions, with the aim of helping readers to better understand the practical significance of development geography.